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Rhythmus 21

by: Hans Richter

Topics: Hans Richter, silent, b&w, short, 1921

Item Size: 69.2M

Rhythmus 21 is a short, black and white silent film by Hans Richter released in 1921.

In the beginning of the century, the coexistence of sound, color and movements in the same artwork was still on an experimental level. One of the first samples of such a work was Hans Richter's Rhythmus 21 (1921), a three minute film where the musical and the visual part are intrinsically connected between them, amplifying thus the impact of the work on the viewer. The image captures oneâs attention immediately: geometrical shapes -white rectangulars in black background or the opposite- move and change color and shape, size and place as they follow the rhythm and the melody of the music.

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Addeddate: 2010-06-30 23:23:14

Color: color

Ia_orig__runtime: 3 minutes 22 seconds

Identifier: Rhythmus21

Run time: 3:22

Sound: sound

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Reviewer: eskimo47 - - July 3, 2024
Subject: A scam in film history

The film looks really good but...

HANS RICHTER was an art forger who fell out with most of his colleagues and also with his once best friend, Swede Viking Eggelling whos paintings he faked and sold once Eggeling had died in 1925.
This film wasn't made before1925 the earliest and the titles implies its production year to be 1921 so that he, Richter, could claim to have been the one to "invent" abstract aniation and avant-garde film.

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